In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal obser...

Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion during the period 1660 1780, and the reaction...

This study sets out to investigate the theoretical and especially the interpretative bases of eig...

Exploration of the meaning of 'history' and its relevance for the origins of the modern English n...

A reappraisal of the work of five major narrative historians (Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Gibbon a...

This study restores Defoe's writings and ideas to their seventeenth-century context.

This is the first full study of one of the most popular and extensive forms of eighteenth-century...

The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy offers rhetorical and literary analyses of four of his majo...

Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element...

Edmond Malone (1741-1812) was the greatest early editor of Shakespeare's works, the first histori...

Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion during the period 1660 1780, and the reaction...

Simon Varey relates the idea of spatial design in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richard...